Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie on Friday signed a bill into law that will increase the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by January 2018. The law will also expand a tip credit to 75 cents, but businesses will not be able to deduct the credit unless workers earn at least $7 more than the minimum wage, up from 50 …

An asteroid that exploded over a Russian city, leaving more than 1,000 people injured by flying glass and debris, collided with another asteroid before hitting Earth, scientists say. Analysis of a mineral called jadeite that was embedded in fragments recovered after the explosion show that the asteroid’s parent body struck a larger asteroid at a relative speed of about 3,000mph.

A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a Surrey-based tree planting company to pay more than $600,000 in compensation to 55 African workers it discriminated against at camps in the Golden-Revelstoke area in 2010. Khaira Enterprises ran camps in the B.C. Interior and abused and discriminated against African refugees working there, according to a ruling released Friday.

Three more people are charged in connection with the taking of an unauthorized photo of Senator Thad Cochran’s wife in an assisted living facility. Police in Madison identify the three as Mark Mayfield, Richard Sager and John Mary. Mayfield is an attorney on the board of the Central Mississippi Tea Party. He’s charged with conspiracy. Sager is from Laurel and …

Retired Chinese basketball great Yao Ming has set his sights on acquiring the Los Angeles Clippers, one of the top teams in the National Basketball Association or NBA.

A Filipino maid has been left covered in burns after her Saudi boss’s mother allegedly threw boiling water at her as punishment for not making coffee quick enough. The 23-year-old was not taken to hospital for hours, despite suffering scarring to her back and legs. Once there, she passed her cousin’s phone number to hospital staff and urged them to …

Homicide investigators have announced an arrest connected to the December 2013 slaying of a 53-year-old hockey mom, a crime that shocked Surrey, B.C., and led many to question the city’s safety.

Researchers looked at 170,000 supermassive black holes to test out a decades-old “doughnut theory” on the appearance of black holes. The 1970s theory worked to explain how black holes had such varied appearance, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory news release reported. The model suggested every black hole was surrounded by a dusty “doughnut” called a torus, a NASA Jet Propulsion …

Marge Karabelski wants her son’s misadventure to be a warning for others. Last Saturday evening, Tommy Karabelski was hit by a subway train at Islington station. Out for a night with his friends, he went beyond the subway platform’s yellow do-not-pass line to urinate and was hit by an oncoming train.

Sex sells. Jessica Alba gets that — especially since her new character in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For simply oozes sex appeal. But, despite her on-screen persona, the mother-of-two insists she’s a prude in real life.

An exciting new meteor shower called the Camelopardalids (Cah-melo-par-dah-lids) will peak late tonight. According to clocks the mid-latitudes in North America are predicted to have the best view of this shower. Look to the north. The showers will come out of the Camelopardalis or Giraffe constellation where the radius of the event will take place.